I found that it took less time to punch my own programs than to have the keypunch operators do it; as you noted, errors.
The same applies to typing once I had access to FORMAT and, later, SCRIPT. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Farley, Peter <0000031df298a9da-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Tuesday, November 7, 2023 7:05 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Kinda fun Yeah, that was a fun stroll down various memory lanes. I actually keypunched for a living at one very early point in my checkered career – had to know how to operate 026’s, 029’s, and 129’s, and how to program the drum card for faster data entry. Mod 10/11 check punches were SO much fun (not!). Large-company keypunch supervisors liked me because I would gladly punch program source submitted by programmers and get it mostly correct (nobody is ALWAYS perfect on a keypunch . . . 😊) and done reasonably quickly. Most of their regular keypunch employees HATED punching program source and made a lot of mistakes. Peter From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Phil Smith III Sent: Tuesday, November 7, 2023 4:18 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Kinda fun https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2023/11/in-bad-old-days-we-had-punchcards-how.html<https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2023/11/in-bad-old-days-we-had-punchcards-how.html__;!!Ebr-cpPeAnfNniQ8HSAI-g_K5b7VKg!I-lICfyZ77K1NQuhU9u53vDnrgco5-arScW1-DN4JVCBhacufZLgsl_zneo_BiGE73mrsbdKH0F_kOrQAxk$> -- This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and delete the message and any attachments from your system. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
